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David Bowie
Age: 69 †
Born: 1947
Born: January 8
Died: 2016
Died: January 10
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At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind.
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I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.
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See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
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Church on time, makes me party.
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It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.
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Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
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Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating.
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
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For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.
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In my madness I see your face in mine.
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I'm a thinker not a talker.
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I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.
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The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.
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Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.
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Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
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I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.
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